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Message started by Berzerker on 04/13/20 at 16:49:13

Title: Your Thoughts on cam grease.
Post by Berzerker on 04/13/20 at 16:49:13

Can I use ultra duty EP to lube up cam befor reassembly?

Title: Re: Your Thoughts on cam grease.
Post by Ruttly on 04/13/20 at 21:19:21

Just a real light smear on journals & lobes. Cam lube is usually packed with moly , great for metal to metal but it will wipe out your clutch. Ask me how I know. I don’t even recommend it unless it was supplied by the company that made the cam. Even then just the lightest smear of it. I wont use it , I just use a smear of white grease , not assembly lube , white grease. It cost me a brand new set of Barnett clutch plates on one of my Hondas , 2 sets of plates & 2 cover gaskets & oil = $200. Live n Learn !

Title: Re: Your Thoughts on cam grease.
Post by batman on 04/14/20 at 07:43:14

If you replace the cam and the motor is together, you could jack the rear of the bike and add your 2.5 Qts of oil through the intake valve cover flooding the "bathtub" under the cam lobes . The rest of the oil would return to the oil sump. With the bike still jacked you could place the bike in gear and manually rotate the rear wheel ,that should force the oil pump to fill the filter and passages up to the cam ,so that when you first start the bike lubrication to the cam should be almost instantaneous.(I would hope :-/ )

Title: Re: Your Thoughts on cam grease.
Post by Berzerker on 04/14/20 at 16:30:40

I DID NOT think about wet clutch, EXCELLENT POINT.
THANK U VERRY MUCH.